Kansas City Begins to Stand Up to neo-Nazis

Rally Slated for Saturday, November 9, at Liberty Memorial

On November 9 at 3:00 p.m. at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial, a wide variety of civil rights and human rights organizations, city officials and concerned individuals will gather to say No! to the National Socialist Movement and Yes! to human rights.

The National Socialist Movement and whatever friends they can gather up are coming to the Kansas City are for a weekend of private sessions on national socialist ideology, a public rally in the center of downtown Kansas City, Missouri and then a nighttime swastika burning on private land, an affair somewhat like a Klan cross burning. Unlike other white nationalists, like those who attend American Renaissance conferences, the 50-to-100 neo-Nazis who rally during the day will hope for some conflict on the streets—it is what helps them gather new members. The nighttime swastika-burning, however, is likely to draw more racists to it than the daytime rally.

is president of IREHR. For almost three decades, he has been a leading authority on white nationalist political and social movements. He is the author of Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2009. more...

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The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) is a national organization with an international outlook examining racist, anti-Semitic, white nationalist, and far-right social movements, analyzing their intersection with civil society and social policy, educating the public, and assisting in the protection and extension of human rights through organization and informed mobilization.